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Keen swimmer Leslie Gelberger went out for a swim near his family home in Auckland on April 20, 2017, but first sent a loving text to his wife Laura McLeod.
On the day of his death, Aitchison left his workplace at Central Machine Hire about 5.30pm in his white Toyota Corolla and headed home. The distance between the boy’s work and the scene of the crash was just over 3 kilometres and would have taken roughly four minutes to travel, an inquest heard. About 5.40pm, a motorist driving along Ballantyne Rd towards Wānaka noticed an upside-down Toyota Corolla between two poplar trees on the right side of the road. Initially he thought the car had probably been there for some time but then he noticed steam coming from the bonnet.
Police subsequently advised there was not enough evidence to justify criminal charges being laid, and Windley held a third inquest hearing in December 2018. On Friday, Windley released a 78-page report of her investigation, which found the exact cause of Thongsi’s death could not be determined. Windley found it was “unlikely” Thongsi’s death was caused by equipment failure, lack of air, a natural event such as a shark attack, or her history of migraines. The coroner also found no evidence that Thongsi died of a sudden acute medical event. A scuba-dive gone wrong On the morning of February 8, 2015, Thongsi went scuba diving with a group off Motunau Beach.